On 04-05-16 13:48, Chris Keating wrote:
A procedural question: Is the chapters' vote binding on the board, or is it the same as for the three community board seats, where the community members selected in the community vote are merely recommendations that the sitting board is free to accept or reject?
As with the community elections, the WMF board needs to appoint the elected candidates by resolution, and reserves the power not to do so. (I'd be surprised if as keen an observer of the WMF board as yourself wasn't already aware of this - it is quite well documented.)
Indeed, there are some circumstances where they should definitely not do so. Imagine a candidate won in the election and then it was subsequently revealed they had committed a serious fraud. It would be ridiculous to expect the WMF Board to seat them in the light of that news.
Such an issue should have been addressed and resolved during the eliligbilty process, not after the fact . If during a politicla election a candidate is not eliligible he will not be allowed to campaign let alone be on the condioate list. This issue was not addressed in a belgian election in the 1930, and a candidate was elected out of prison ...
I take the point that the WMF is not greatly clear about its expectations of trustee behaviour and a lot of it appears to rely on unwritten rules and the views of other Board members. As a result it is not particular clear in what range of circumstances the WMF board might exercise its power not to appoint a candidate who'd been successful in the election, or to remove a sitting Board member. (We have one case recently where people have been outraged that someone was removed, and another case where people have been outraged that it took a matter of weeks to remove someone else). However, I think addressing that issue is rather more important than splitting the semantic hairs about "selection", "election" and the like.
Regards,
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